Pushups - WTF?

If you're doing your pushups with your elbows close in to your ribs (which is actually proper), then you'll activate the lats as well. You may have some localized soreness from the lower lat attachment.

Just a wild guess.

Easy - you pulled a lat.  No big deal.  A little ice, a little rest and it'll be fine.  What happened is you tried something new.  Mix it up, even in a small way and you discover new types of pain.  When's the last time anyone did a Stairmaster?  Or played squash/raquetball?  Climbed a rock wall?  When all you typically do is swim, bike and run, you throw in a new kind of exercise and suddenly use a long-forgotten muscle or use one in a different way.

Standard ouchie.

Time to switch to push ups on your toes all the time!  You won't be able to crank out nearly as many, so just switch to holding the pushup position, but still on your toes.  I go to this women's boot camp, and on day 1 we got a lesson that it's a better overall workout to just do a pushup hold but be on your toes than do girl pushups on your knees.  I have not done any research to back this up, but i bet you'll get better at them on your toes quicker than you think!  Involves a good bit more core, which is always a good thing.

This doesn't answer your question, but rather is some chick to chick pushup encouragment!

 I sometimes get a similair pain in my back.  I figured it was just some type of muscle spasm.   Comes and goes for me.  Kind of similair to a muscle cramp, almost as if the muscle is not getting enough oxygen.

 That is my story. 

Sounds like an injury that was on the edge of happening. Maybe the strain from your pushups sent it over the limit.

Matt Cazalas
Technical Writer

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